Diagnóstico do manejo nutricional de equinos atletas para vaquejada

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the nutritional management adopted by breeders of athlete horses in the region of Cariri Paraibano. The research was carried out in the municipalities of Queimadas, Caturité and Boqueirão. The method of information acquisition was based on interviews conducted with the owners or managers of the animals, interviews were semi-directive where only one issue is thrown, letting the producer respond. The questionnaires were semistructured with questions related to the general nutritional management of horses. Fifty interviews were carried out with breeders of horses that ran in vaquejadas, and in each property more than one interview was carried out. The data obtained were evaluated through descriptive statistics by the frequency of participation of each response presented by the breeders. Of the 50 interviewees, only (46%) receive some type of technical follow-up, animals evaluated in the age question, presented on average an age of 7.5 years, being considered animals with good age range and that will compete for many years, A the majority of the animals (96%) receive water at will, (54%) offer their own commercial ration for horses, the remaining 46% offer some type of meal prepared on the property without technical guidance, while in mineral supplementation only 22% of the interviewees offer mineral salt, being (30%) at will and most (70%) added in the feed, The supply of hay as bulky All the animals receive as their first food of the day the concentrate being that (8%) receives concentrate mixed with bulky. In the feeding management during the vaquejada tests (86%) of the producers provide concentrate for the horses and all provide voluminous at will, (70%) the water is at intervals of time during rest, with the data obtained it is concluded that the feeding management of the studied region presents satisfactory results, but there is a lack of technical assistance with trained positioners to improve even more the daily management of the cowherd animals inside and outside the property.